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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2025

Harnessing phages to tackle antimicrobial resistance: a Saudi Arabian perspective.

Alhassan Alrafaie

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Treating Extensively Drug-ResistantPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Alhassan AlrafaieDepartment of Medical Laboratory, College of Applied Medical Sciences in Al-Kharj, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The worldwide antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threat continues to grow, causing an estimate of 4.71 million deaths during 2021. Scientists predict it could lead to 10 million deaths each year by 2050 unless effective solutions are developed. The government of Saudi Arabia implemented the AMR Action Plan (2022-2025) and participated in the 4th Global High-Level Ministerial Conference on AMR (2024) to address this issue. However, ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae and carbapenem-resistant

Indexed as

Bacterial InfectionsBacteriophagesDrug Resistance, BacterialPhage TherapyAcinetobacter baumanniiAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaBiofilmsHumansSaudi ArabiaAnti-Bacterial Agentsantibioticantimicrobial resistancebacteriophagephage therapySaudi Arabia

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PMID41355985
PMCPMC12675477

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